Policy & Ethics

Trans Tech Publications Ltd. strives to ensure the quality of the published content and calls authors, editors, reviewers and publisher representatives for ethical behavior.

When submitting a new manuscript corresponding authors are expected to consider whether:

people identified as co-authors fully qualify for authorship (significant contribution to the work, development of the design and concept of the research, data processing and analysis, writing or revising the manuscript, accountability for all aspects of the work)

all the parties contributed to a manuscript are mentioned in the acknowledgments (attraction of funding, general administrative support; writing assistance, technical editing, language editing, proofreading, etc.)

all the co-authors give their consent to submit the final version of the manuscript

manuscript is original; all the work and wording which was taken from others is appropriately cited

sufficient detail and references are provided to permit others to replicate the experiments; raw data is available for checking if needed

manuscripts describing essentially the same research have not been submitted to several journals to avoid multiple or redundant publication

relationships that potentially could result in a conflict of interest are disclosed

excuse themselves from peer review, if feel unqualified to provide a relevant report, have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.